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London Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance


Published: 1997-07-01

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Cap 1033 - LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1

Chapter: 1033 LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION
ORDINANCE

Gazette Number Version Date


Long title 33 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3

To provide for the incorporation of the Senior Missionary in Hong Kong of the London Missionary Society.

(Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)


[31 October 1891]

(Originally 19 of 1891 (Cap 296 1950))

Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997


This Ordinance may be cited as the London Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 6)


Section: 2 Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in Hong Kong of

the London Missionary Society
33 of 1999 01/07/1997



Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3


The holder of the appointment of Senior Missionary in Hong Kong of the London Missionary Society shall be a
body corporate, hereinafter called the said corporation, and shall have the name of "The Senior Missionary in Hong
Kong of the London Missionary Society", and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue
and be sued in all courts, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break, change, alter,
and make anew as to the said corporation may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situate in Hong Kong, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings,
messuages, or tenements in Hong Kong or upon the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of
any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in Hong Kong and also to purchase and acquire
all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said corporation is hereby further empowered by deed under its
seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose
of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks and securities, goods and chattels,
vested in the said corporation, on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit:

Provided that due notice of appointment as such Senior Missionary in Hong Kong, and of the proof thereof
having been placed in the hands of the Chief Executive, shall be given in the Gazette.

(Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule ; 12 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1999 s. 3)

Section: 3 Use of seal 30/06/1997


All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be sealed with the
seal of the said corporation in the presence of the said Senior Missionary or his attorney duly authorized, and shall also
be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of
such deeds, documents, and other instruments.

(Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule ; 2 of 1912 Schedule)

Section: 4 Saving 33 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:



Cap 1033 - LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 2

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3


Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, or the rights of
any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those
claiming by, from or under them.

(Replaced 37 of 1950 Schedule. Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)